Garden Club encourages planting for award

The Hillsdale Garden Club has a total of 66 members who are busy all year with activities aimed towards making Hillsdale more beautiful.

The projects are funded by the profits from the Fall Holiday Greens Sale, which is the major annual fundraising event of the club.

Publicity chairman Elizabeth Hermann said the support of the Greens Sale by Hillsdale businesses and public provides the funds for the following activities: Arbor Day plantings at area schools, Hillsdale City hanging floral baskets, Tea in the Park (Aug. 6), landscaping at Mrs. Stock’s Park and the upcoming Hillsdale Garden Club Beautification Award.

Hermann said the club wants to give a “heads up” on the club’s Beautification Award, which will be made when area gardens are in full bloom. The club encourages city residents to begin planting for the award.

“This is an annual award for the most beautiful landscaping and front garden plantings,” Hermann said. “The club would like to remind Hillsdale City residents that club members will be on the lookout for front gardens that can be seen from the street and which are outstanding to the eye.”

Last year’s award went to Kathy Grubbs of 84 Reading Ave., Hillsdale. Her gardens were chosen for the variety of perennials that stretched from her front yard to the back. She had 53 varieties of day lilies, in addition to black-eyed Susans, cornflowers, flocks and roses. To nominate someone for the award, contact Ellie Leutheuser at 437-3737 or 135 Hillcrest Drive, Hillsdale.